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Does local ai actually fuck ur electric bill?

If someone does heavy vibecoding with something like qwen 3.8 27b on a 5080, how much would that cost in electricity. Taking it a step higher to running bigger models (qwen 3.8 flash next , deepseek, glm etc ) on something like a Mac studio, what would that be like?

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  1. 2026-10-01 11:30 · r/LocalLLM
    Does local ai actually fuck ur electric bill?

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